.ipk are like debian (or indeed ubuntu) packages, i.e. they are initially packaged with ar, not tar. Unpacking will give you a meta-data file plus control.tar.gz. and data.tar.gz, which you can untar as usual. data.tar.gz is meants to be untarred in /, i.e. it contains all folders up from usr, var, etc.
- Gunnar Kasper Johansen wrote: > Hi list. > > Is it possible to extract a IPK-package (some_package.ipk)? I do not > want to install anything - just inspect the package on my Ubuntu-machine. > > I have been able to extract some packages by using "tar -zxvf" after > renaming the extension to tar.gz - though I cant with all packages (and > I dont know why). > > Can anyone point in the direction on how to do so? > -- Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes gunnar.grimnes [AT] dfki.de DFKI GmbH Knowledge Management Trippstadter Strasse 122 D-67663 Kaiserslautern Germany Office: +49 631 205 75-117 Mobile: +49 177 277 4397 _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
